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practice in nature study and agriculture, the school garden has no 

 equal. In order to teach these subjects properly, every school 

 should have a school garden. Where this is done it will be found 

 that the children of the country will take a greater interest in 

 the country and all its affairs. By school gardens the little 

 country school will be transformed from a place of desolation 

 and cheerlessness into a picture of beauty, and then become an 

 inspiration and stimulus for the whole country. There may be 

 many difficulties in the way,' but the thing to do is to forget these 

 and actually make some beginning by digging and planting, by 

 planning and working, NOW. 



Gilbert T Trafton formerly of the State Normal School of 

 Passaic, N. J., is now with the State Normal School of M innesota 

 at Mankato in charge of the nature study work and agriculture. 



E. E. Balcamb, formerly of the Rhode Island State Norma: 

 School, and secretary of the National Committee on Agricultural 

 Education and of the N. E. A. Department of Rural and Agri- 

 cultural Education has entered on a new line of work instituted 

 by the North Carolina Normal and Industrial College, at Greens- 

 boro, North Carolina, in which it will endeavor to push agricul- 

 tural education and nature study generally among the teachers of 

 the state. 



